Events on Tuesday, November 20
Tuesday 11/20 @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Café Tacuba have been rocking en Español since a group of graphic-design students got together to jam in Mexico City in...
Tuesday 11/20 @ The Hudson Theatre at Millennium Broadway Hotel
Sitting on a bench chatting with an artist or attending a restaged happening requires an uncomfortable level of participation. At least...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 11/20 @ Bose Pacia Gallery
Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world....
Tuesday 11/20 @ Japan Society
Though New York's Japan Society hosts only two exhibitions a year, they're reliably terrific. This fall, young curator Eric C. Shiner...
Tuesday 11/20 @ James Cohan Gallery
Insulation foam may be the defining sculptural material of the current generation, and Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is its maestro,...
Tuesday 11/20 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Three brothers find themselves living together, once again, in their childhood home. Both of their parents committed suicide, two of the...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Museum of Art and Design
Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Deitch Projects
Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Various locations
Unrivaled by any other event in the world (so far), PERFORMA is a biennial of performance art by more than 90...
Tuesday 11/20 @ White Columns
2007 isn't over yet, but Chelsea arts org White Columns gets the first word on the highlights. If you didn't make...
Tuesday 11/20 @ David Zwirner
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Imperial Theatre
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Tuesday 11/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Deitch Projects
Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
Inspired by the growing polarization and insularity of American media, Quo Vadimus Arts has gone in the other direction, creating a...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
Since bursting onto the art scene in the '90s, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has resuscitated several major genres of photography with...
Tuesday 11/20 @ BravinLee Programs
Fabian Marcaccio's new black-and-white drawings are made from all kinds of materials, from ink and plaster to string and water pumps....
Tuesday 11/20 @ Giant Robot New York
Jen Corace's illustrations of melancholic little girls hew to the particularly enchanting strain of cute-with-claws art popularized by Yoshitomo Nara and...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Robin Hood's green hat, Scarlet O'Hara's crimson lips, and Dorothy's rainbow — trademark images of '30s and '40s film — were...
Tuesday 11/20 @ gallery hanahou
In the place where cockeyed monsters do battle with grumpy tomatoes and gold-lamé hearts rule, Soho's illustrator-friendly gallery hanahou brings in...
Tuesday 11/20 @ PaceWildenstein
In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,...
Tuesday 11/20 @ David Zwirner
The cheat-sheet on Thomas Ruff goes like this: a student of the austere photographer-duo Bernd and Hilla Becher in Düsseldorf; contemporary...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Culture Project
Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a...
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Tuesday 11/20 @ Guggenheim Museum
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Maccarone Gallery
LA performance artist Paul McCarthy has lathered himself with condiments, crammed his orifices full of hot dogs, and positioned inflatable, phallus-for-nose...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Culture Project
With its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
The most influential sculptors in contemporary art aren't the formal purists of MoMA's recent exhibitions (Serra and Puryear), they're a coterie...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Hispanic Society of America
While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Gagosian Gallery
This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's...
Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress
Tuesday 11/20 @ Brecht Forum
With the Chelsea-fication of New York's art scene, art as a pure form of political expression isn't easy to find these...
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Tuesday 11/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Having won the 1401 door-design competition for Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni's (Baptistry of St. John) northern portal, native Florentine Lorenzo...
